Columbus State Community College STEM Scholarship Program

俄亥俄州哥伦布州立社区学院将与高中和大学合作，解决国家、地区和地方对科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）工作者的需求。该项目将创建一个奖学金计划，旨在招募具有高学术潜力的经济困难学生进入科学副学士转STEM项目，并提供经济支持和学生支持服务，以确保学生的成功和完成学业。教育支持将产生合格的STEM毕业生，他们可以转到大学，获得学士学位，并满足行业需求。该项目将提供高质量的课程和对项目活动的广泛评价。它有一个积极的计划，以确保代表性不足的妇女和少数民族学生充分参与。该项目将为哪些活动对学生的成功影响最大创造新的研究数据。有了这些信息，未来的STEM项目将以这一发现为基础，改善服务。广泛的评估计划将产生关于项目的哪些组成部分最成功的公正数据。这些经验教训和项目成果将广泛传播，使其他学院能够制定项目，吸引有抱负的低收入STEM学生。该项目由具有多年经验的STEM教师领导，他们根据学生成功文献开发了一套合理的活动。该学院拥有广泛的资源，包括一个新的STEM资源中心，这将是学生参与的主要焦点。该项目的总体目标是(a)增加低收入、有学术天赋且有经济需要的学生在STEM学科攻读副学士学位的招收、保留、学生成功、转学和毕业；(b)实施和研究STEM奖学金计划，其中包括STEM建议和改进课程，评估有效的最佳做法，以更好地了解影响招生、保留、学生成功、学术/职业道路和/或学位获得（包括学生转学）的支持性课程和课外活动的因素；(c)为有经济需要的低收入学生提供有效的课程和课外活动，帮助他们在学院接受STEM教育。在这个为期五年的项目中，将有48名学生作为S-STEM学者参加。该项目将包括(a)面向所有S-STEM学者的活动，包括年度奖学金、针对新生的为期一周的夏季桥梁项目、STEM俱乐部、专门的STEM顾问、STEM资源中心、职业咨询、实习机会、队列课程安排、早期预警和同伴指导；(b) S-STEM学者可选择的活动，包括基于干预的辅导、补充指导、通过其他大学项目提供的学生支持服务、第一年的STEM系列研讨会和以STEM为重点的服务学习机会。

Columbus State Community College in Ohio, in collaboration with high school and university partners, will address the national, regional, and local need for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workers. The project will create a scholarship program that is designed to recruit economically disadvantaged students with high academic potential into Associate of Science transfer STEM programs and provide financial support and student support services to ensure student success and completion. The educational supports will result in well-qualified STEM graduates who can transfer to a university, earn a baccalaureate degree, and fill industry needs. The project will deliver a high quality curriculum and an extensive evaluation of project activities. It has an aggressive plan to ensure full participation for underrepresented women and minority students. The project will create new research data on which activities have the greatest impacts on student success. With such information, future STEM projects will build on this discovery to improve services. An extensive evaluation plan will yield unbiased data on which components of the project are most successful. The lessons learned and project outcomes will be disseminated broadly to enable other colleges to craft projects to engage low-income aspiring STEM students. The project is led by STEM faculty members with years of experience who have developed a well-reasoned set of activities based on student success literature. The college has extensive resources to enable a successful project including a new STEM Resource Center, which will be a major focal point for student engagement. The overall project goals are to (a) increase the recruitment, retention, student success, transfer and graduation of low-income, academically talented students with demonstrated financial need pursuing an Associate of Science degree in STEM disciplines; (b) implement and study a STEM scholarship program, that includes STEM advising and enhanced curriculum, evaluating effective best practices to better understand the factors of supportive curricular and co-curricular activities that affect recruitment, retention, student success, academic/career pathways, and/or degree attainment (including student transfer); and (c) sustain effective curricular and co-curricular activities for low-income academically talented students with financial need, pursuing STEM education at the college. During the five-year project 48 students will participate as S-STEM scholars. The project will involve (a) activities for all S-STEM Scholars that include an annual scholarship, weeklong summer bridge program for incoming freshmen, STEM Club, dedicated STEM advisor, STEM Resource Center, career counseling, internship opportunities, cohort class scheduling, early alerts, and peer mentoring; and (b) optional activities available to S-STEM Scholars including intervention-based tutoring, supplemental instruction, student support services available through other college programs, a first-year STEM seminar series, and STEM-focused service learning opportunities.